London: S.P.C.K, 1964. Hardcover. A printing of the contents of "two volumes of a diary kept by Dr. Thomas Wilson of Sodor and Man ... never published or even extensively quoted ... the diaries cover the years 1731-37 and 1750, and give a fascinating and intimate picture of the diarist and his contemporaries in the fashionable world of eighteenth-century London" (jacket). Dr. Wilson was a Whig clergyman and details his duties, church discipline, daily life, and descriptions of what offenders had to endure as public penance.

Black paper covered boards with gilt title to spine. Pristine interior. Green dust jacket with black and white title to front and spine panels. Wear to jacket includes rubbing and scuffing as well as creasing to edges. Index 264 pages. English Biography. ENGBIO/071709. Near Fine in Good + DJ.

Item #21923

Price: $25.00